Change is Inevitable

Every story I’ve written can be boiled down to one essential plot. I write about bad things happening to people while they try and fail to avoid having to change and adapt. I think this sums up the “meaning of life” or the “human experience” or whatever you want to call it.

This “one plot” is the most blatantly presented in Grief, which is just literally people hiding behind their defense mechanisms until it becomes painfully obvious that they’re doing more harm than good. That’s the moment of heroics, for me, that choice to let your old self die, to let go of what you hold to be true about yourself, and become a new thing.

This personal apotheosis features heavily in my upcoming serial Infernal Revelation as well. Characters desperately clinging to selves that no longer serve them, out of a fear of the unknown, out of fear of change.

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